We would do well to ponder the realization that love is the most potent source of power.
When people are bewildered they tend to become credulous.
Governments do not make ideals, but ideals make governments. This is both historically and logically true. Of course the government can help to sustain ideals and can create institutions through which they can be the better observed, but their source by their very nature is in the people. The people have to bear their own responsibilities. There is no method by which that burden can be shifted to the government. It is not the enactment, but the observance of laws, that creates the character of a nation.
There is no force so democratic as the force of an ideal.
I cannot think of anything characteristically American that was not produced by toil. I cannot think of any American man or woman preeminent in the history of our nation who did not reach their place through toil. I cannot think of anything that represents the American people as a whole so adequately as honest work.
A display of reason rather than a threat of force should be the determining factor in the intercourse among nations.
I sometimes wish that people would put a little more emphasis upon the observance of the law than they do upon its enforcement.
We must risk the journey to a higher ground where there is freedom from the gravitational pull of our stories, the pull that comes from years of trying to prove that the stories we tell ourselves, the ones we've made up, are the truth.
Never change your originality for the sake of others because no one can play your role better than you.
Him, who incessantly laughs in the street, you may commonly hear grumbling in his closet.
You might not always get what you want, but you always get what you expect.